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Title Women of color : mother-daughter relationships in 20th-century literature / edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.99287 W872WO    Check Shelf
Edition First University of Texas Press edition.
Description xiii, 249 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The problems of reading: mother-daughter relationships and Indian postcoloniality / Radhika Mohanram -- A continuum of pain: a woman's legacy in Alice Walker's Possessing the secret of joy / Kimberly Joyce Pollock -- I was cryin', all the people were cryin', my mother was cryin': aboriginality and maternity in Sally Morgan's My place / Joyce Zonana -- My mother is here: Buchi Emecheta's love child / Patricia Lee Yongue -- (Re)claiming the race of the mother: CherrĂ­e Moraga's Shadow of a man, Giving up the ghost, and Heroes and saints / Julia De Foor Jay -- The poetics of matrilineage: mothers and daughters in the poetry of African American women, 1965-1985 / Fabian Clements Worsham -- The mother as other: orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Sheryl A. Mylan -- Love and conflict: Mexican American women writers as daughters / Maria Gonzalez -- Mother-daughter relationships as epistemological structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Storyteller / Charlene Taylor Evans -- Disrupted motherlines: mothers and daughters in a genderized, sexualized, and racialized world / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Voice, mind, self: mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan's The joy luck club and The kitchen god's wife / M. Marie Booth Foster -- To make herself: mother-daughter conflicts in Toni Morrison's Sula and Tar baby / Lucille P. Fultz.
Subject American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Added Author Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth.
ISBN 0292708467 cloth alkaline paper
0292708475 paperback alkaline paper
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